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Landscape Landcape: The landscape is very beautiful. A large lake and many mountains and many animals. There is an a lot of firs, pines, and oak forests

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Location Location:Province Lleida

Coordinates: Latitude Longitude 01º 00 E. 42º35 N

Date declared a National Park:Decree of October 21, 1955

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Number of visitors per year:

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• Inside the park there are 1,471 plant species.

• In the lower elevations and valleys include deciduous forests, beech, oak, ash, hazel.

• Above 1,500 meters there are the black pine.

• And, above 2,000 meters forests there are only pasture and mountain bushes.

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• In the Park live about 200 species of vertebrates and two thirds are birds.

• In 1988 it was declared by the European Union (Special Protection Area) by the presence of especial animals.

• In many major rivers and lakes there are trout and other native species.

• Among the amphibian there are the common frog and the Pyrenean newt is significant because of its rarity.

• And you can also find reptiles like poisonous snakes.

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